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...particular drug company has been a significant player in Botswana: Merck. The U.S. firm created some of the first ARVs capable of treating HIV and AIDS (Crixivan and Stocrin), but has in the past been criticized for its methods of distributing them. In 2004, MSF singled out Merck for reneging on commitments to release the medicines at a cost of less than $1 per person per day. Merck was hurt by such accusations. (According to the firm's website, its founder, George W. Merck, once said: "We try never to forget that medicine is for the people...
...Merck's vice president of external affairs, Jeff Sturchio, acknowledges that not everyone will buy in to the company's efforts. "People are entitled to their own views," he says. "There will always be people who are cynical about big corporations." And yet it is undeniable that Merck's work is saving lives. The ACHAP program has been a stunning success. There are now 30 clinics providing free ARVs and counseling across Botswana, and four more mobile clinics to reach remote areas. More than 7,000 health workers have been trained in treating HIV/AIDS. Of the estimated 110,000 people...
From the most local civic groups to the largest businesses, we all want to make a difference. General Electric, for example, donates large amounts of hospital equipment. Becton, Dickinson does the same with syringes and diagnostics. Novartis, GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, Pfizer, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Abbott Laboratories and others have launched major drug programs, backed by considerable staff efforts, to battle devastating diseases like malaria, HIV/AIDS, trachoma, leprosy, lymphatic filariasis and more...
...load in women already infected with HPV. According to the study's authors, past trials have suggested that HPV vaccination boosts the body's immune response to infection, and some researchers thought that it might work as a form of therapy for HPV-positive women. Like its cousin, Gardasil (Merck), Cervarix is designed to protect against HPV virus types 16 and 18, which together cause 70% of all cervical cancers. But Hidesheim's study of more than 2,100 women aged 18 to 25 in Costa Rica found that Cervarix - like Gardasil - doesn't fight HPV or change the progression...
...earliest stages. Studies have only just begun on the safety of the vaccine in women older than 26. And, according to GlaxoSmithKline spokeswoman Liad Diamond, studying Cervarix in boys and men is "on the radar screen of the clinical development team" but there is "nothing underway right now." At Merck, clinical trials of Gardasil in males have been ongoing for about a year, and preliminary results show that "immune responses in 9- to 15-year-old boys are consistent with those found in females aged 16 to 23," according to Merck's Kelley Dougherty. Once efficacy data are available, Merck...